Posts Tagged ‘workshops’

Should coding be taught at schools? How should it be taught, as a subject or as a cross curricular teaching and learning tool? Do you have any experience in using different coding resources? These and other questions were asked to the audience to introduce the topic of coding at...

During the school year 2012/13, a Pilot Project began to show students different new didactic strategies on eTwinning platform, during the initial stages of their training. The Teacher Training Institutes from different European countries worked together to achieve two main goals: to raise awareness of the processes and possibilities...

The purpose of the workshop Active Citizenship for Pupils, held by M.R. Fasanelli at the 2015 etwinning conference, was to give participants an understanding of this year’s theme “Active Citizenship” as well as something to go home with, some basic concepts for active citizenship to develop in their current...

What was the weather like yesterday? That’s what participants were asked at the start of this thought provoking workshop on understanding history and helping students develop tolerance. Everyone in the room had their own take on the weather, some thought it was warm, whilst others thought it was cold....

At the very beginning of this workshop Vincenzo Bianca asked all the participants to tell a “cliché” about their country that is not true. There we learnt for example that Portugal is not in Spain, Poland is not near North Pole, not all Dutch girls all tall, it is...

Patrizia Roma guided the audience through the exploration of two digital tools – Socrative and Nearpod – which allow a great amount of classroom interaction and have many possible applications in eTwinning projects. What are Socrative and Nearpod? Socrative (www.socrative.com) is a student response system for real time questioning,...

Should education be about sharing? How open is your school? Do you have any experience in sharing educational resources? What is the attitude in your country/culture/school to sharing material? Ania Skowron introduced the topic of OER (Open Educational Resources) by asking these challenging questions to the participants. After discussing...

Ken Corish from UK Safer Internet Centre covered the fascinating topic of the shifting perspectives of bullying in schools across Europe. A topic of the recently run project ENABLE – European network against bullying in learning and leisure environments. The aim of the project is to eliminate bullying or...

Here are the presentations of the workshops that took place during the eTwinning 2015 Prize Event: eTwinning Prize Winners Event Coding Workshop from European Schoolnet eTwinning Prize Winners Event Coding Workshop – main activity sheet from European Schoolnet 21st Century skills within the classroom from European...